Meaning and history
Hortense is the French form of Hortensia.
19221922: 202 births, rank #486
1923: 182 births, rank #522
1924: 212 births, rank #479
1925: 178 births, rank #533
1926: 174 births, rank #531
19271927: 151 births, rank #577
1928: 135 births, rank #606
1929: 120 births, rank #631
1930: 95 births, rank #713
1931: 99 births, rank #669
19321932: 93 births, rank #707
1933: 81 births, rank #734
1934: 55 births, rank #928
1935: 74 births, rank #786
1936: 57 births, rank #904
19371937: no US SSA record for this spelling
1938: 60 births, rank #919
1939: 53 births, rank #980
1940: no US SSA record for this spelling
19411941: 60 births, rank #950
Hortense rose from #980 to #950 for girls between 1939 and 1941. Its highest annual birth count came in 1919, with 229 births.